Do Ivies share applicant info with each other?

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<p>This is purely an anecdote, but: a student from my high school got accepted ED to Columbia. She rejected them “on the grounds that its f/a offer was insufficient,” and then got accepted RD to Harvard. Harvard wasn’t offering any better f/a than Columbia, yet she chose to enroll at Harvard.</p>

<p>Well, both schools found out, and decided to rescind her offer.</p>

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<p>^
Ouch. 10char</p>

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<p>^^^ No such luck, backtous.</p>

<p>Consider this: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1065720841-post33.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1065720841-post33.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The scope of the antitrust rules as applied to nonprofit organizations, like colleges, extends to their commercial activities (such as setting the price for tuition and discounts, such as financial aid and merit scholarships). The fact of a prospective student’s early decision acceptance is not protected. If you’ve been accepted early decision, there’s no anti-competitive implication to sharing that fact…since it is not commercial/financial information and, what’s more: you’ve signed an agreement declaring that you’ll remove yourself from the admission pool. You’ve made a decision to enroll in College X. College X has made a decision to accept you. There’s a signed agreement binding you to that decision. Before the decision is made, the draft scenario outlined by christiansoldier probably can’t happen…but once you’re committed to College X, there’s no competition going on, is there? </p>

<p>Once you break an agreement to matriculate with one college, there’s nothing that keeps that college from sharing that breach of contract information…and there’s no understanding among colleges that compels any other college to deny you acceptance upon receiving that news. It’s definitely not per se anti-competitive and in the world of college admissions where yield is important and there are other students seeking that spot, it is a legitimately relevant factor for a college to reject a student who has a track record of backing out of binding agreements to matriculate.</p>

<p>Bottom line: neither the Sherman Act nor the Clayton Act will be riding to the rescue of those who back out of ED agreements.</p>